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Come this weekend, Atlanta’s Ballethnic Dance Company will have staged its celebrated “Urban Nutcracker” for 26 years. And this time, December 8-10, the popular Christmas ballet will go back to its first venue --the MLK Chapel at Morehouse College.

Ballethnic’s Co-Founders and Directors Waverly Lucas and Nena Gilreath are excited about bringing Urban Nutcrackerback to the King Chapel. “We first got the chance to fully mount our version of the traditional “Nutcracker” with African-American dancers and young children who wanted to perform in this classic ballet,” said Mr. Lucas.

“And just like that first performance at Morehouse – our return to the King Chapel this weekend enables us to share Urban Nutcracker with a broad and diverse audience from across metro Atlanta,” Ms. Gilreath added.

Along with its historic return to the Morehouse campus, Ballethnic also is celebrating the participation of many cast members who trained as youth with the Ballethnic Academy of Dance (BAD). “We take great pride in now having cast members who began in our children’s classes and then graduated as apprentice dancers from the Ballethnic Youth Ensemble or the Danseur Development Project,” commented Mr. Lucas.

This weekend’s staging of Urban Nutcracker marks our move from a period of significant challenge to major growth for Ballethnic, Ms. Gilreath noted. “Our theme for the 2017-18 season – From Grit to Grace – celebrates where we are now.”

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WHAT:Opening Night for Ballethnic’s “Urban Nutcracker,” Waverly Lucas’ colorful and whimsical adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s classic “Nutcracker” ballet, but set on Atlanta’s ‘Sweet Auburn’ of the 1940’s.

Awards Ceremony for Lifetime Service to Ballethnic V. I. P. Reception, featuring the show’s lead performers‘Casual Cal,’ from the famed Universoul Circus, will emcee the OpeningNight activities.

SponsorsUrban Nutcracker is sponsored in part by the Fulton County Arts Council, WSB-TV Family 2 Family, Georgia Certified Development Corporation and the Chestnut Family Foundation.

About Ballethnic Dance CompanyBallethnic Dance Company is a classically-trained, culturally diverse ballet company that merges traditional ballet with the artistic influences of other ethnic cultures, especially African American. Ballethnic -- Atlanta’s first and only African American- founded, classically- trained professional ballet company -- produces unique and exciting dance performances locally and nationally. Ballethnic was founded in 1990 by Nena Gilreath and Waverly T. Lucas II, a husband-and- wife team, and both former dancers with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Atlanta Ballet. The company’s goal is to inform, educate and entertain through dance. Ballethnic Dance Company, including its Academy of Dance, is located in East Point, GA.

For more information about other productions and the Ballethni Academy of Dance, visit www.ballethnic.org.

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